District Magistrate, North Goa District, Panaji Goa in exercise of the powers vested under section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, has directed that all the owners of the houses, buildings, flats and other residential accommodation and the owners/management of all hotels, lodging and boarding, shacks, private guest houses, paying guest accommodation of religious bodies etc in the while of North Goa District to verify the bonafides of the persons through their proof of identity such as Election Card, Driving License, Aadhar Card, Passport, etc and make necessary arrangements for entry of details of Customers/visitors in the PATHIK (Program for Analysis of Traveler and Hotel Informatics software prepared by Police.
No landlords/tenants/owner/person of any house/property which falls under the territorial jurisdiction of North Goa District, shall not let/sublet/rent out any accommodation to any person unless and until he/she has furnished the particulars of the tenants to the Police In-Charge of the concerned area.
The DM further directed that In-Charge of such accommodation shall provide such facilities for inspection of the maintenance of record in the above said software by the Police authorities authorized by the undersigned, if so desired by them.